Founding Design Engineer

Lunon•United States, CA

5d•Remote

About The Position

Lunon is the world's first AI-native consulting firm. We run engagements for private equity firms and global enterprises across the full spectrum of consulting work. The work is institutional quality, delivered in a fraction of the time and cost. We believe the traditional consulting model is fundamentally broken. Firms charge $500 an hour for analysts doing work that AI can do better, faster, and more rigorously. We are building the platform that proves it, and delivering the engagements that demonstrate it. We have raised a $2M pre-seed round backed by General Catalyst, SV Angel, and top Silicon Valley names, with advisors across the world's leading PE firms and consulting practices. What you'll own As Lunon's Founding Design Engineer, your job is to make complex analytical work feel clear, fast, and inevitable. The platform you are building is where hundreds of millions of dollars in deals get analyzed and decided. Engagements are carried out end to end on it, from initial scoping through live AI-driven research and analysis, to polished reports and deliverables that clients access directly on the platform. The clients sitting on the other side expect something that matches the weight of that work, every pixel, every interaction, every data visualization has to be perfect. You will own the intersection of design and engineering, turning high-stakes financial and strategic data into interfaces that PE partners and executives actually trust. You will build the design system and frontend standards that every future engineer inherits, making every incremental feature easier to ship and more refined to use. How you'll work Your workflow, your tools, your call. Paper, Framer, Figma, Claude Design, etc. straight into Claude Code or Cursor, whatever gets the best result fastest. You ship it yourself. No handoffs, no waiting. You stay on top of the best tools as they emerge and bring that to the team. This is not a design role. This is not an engineering role. It's both, and the opportunity to define the visual and interaction language of a category that does not exist yet.

Requirements

Formidable design engineer: stop at nothing to accomplish your goal.
Pragmatic: know when to let little fires burn and when to break out the extinguisher.
Strong design taste and the engineering skills to bring your ideas to life.
Equally comfortable prototyping as you are in code.
Obsessed with craft: the micro-interaction that feels off, the visualization that could tell a clearer story, the flow that adds one too many clicks.
Empathetic: understand how users think and why.
Excellent communicator: clarity has to come naturally.
Gritty: pick the hardest, highest-quality option regardless of the effort it takes and push through it.

Responsibilities

Make complex analytical work feel clear, fast, and inevitable.
Build the platform where hundreds of millions of dollars in deals get analyzed and decided.
Own the intersection of design and engineering, turning high-stakes financial and strategic data into interfaces that PE partners and executives actually trust.
Build the design system and frontend standards that every future engineer inherits.
Ship features yourself without handoffs or waiting.
Stay on top of the best tools as they emerge and bring that to the team.
Define the visual and interaction language of a category that does not exist yet.